States, citizens and the privatization of security / / Elke Krahmann

• Autore: Krahmann Elke
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xi, 305 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 355.3/54
• Soggetto topico: National security; Security, International; Contracting out; Private military companies; State, The; Civil-military relations; Democracy
• Soggetto geografico: Great Britain Military policy; United States Military policy; Germany Military policy
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: State monopoly on collective violence and democratic control over military force -- The transformation of the state and the soldier -- United Kingdom: private financing and the management of security -- United States: shrinking the state, outsourcing the soldier -- Germany: between public-private partnerships and conscription -- Iraq and beyond: contractors in deployed operations -- The future of democratic security: contractorization or cosmopolitanism?
• Sommario/riassunto: Recent years have seen a growing role for private military contractors in national and international security. To understand the reasons for this, Elke Krahmann examines changing models of the state, the citizen and the soldier in the UK, the US and Germany. She focuses on both the national differences with regard to the outsourcing of military services to private companies and their specific consequences for the democratic control over the legitimate use of armed force. Tracing developments and debates from the late eighteenth century to the present, she explains the transition from the centralized warfare state of the Cold War era to the privatized and fragmented security governance, and the different national attitudes to the privatization of force.
• Altri titoli varianti: States, Citizens & the Privatisation of Security
• Titolo autorizzato: States, citizens and the privatization of security
• ISBN: 1-107-20255-8; 1-139-03573-8; 1-283-05387-X; 9786613053879; 1-139-04119-3; 1-139-04272-6; 1-139-04196-7; 1-139-04459-1; 1-139-03805-2; 1-139-04041-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910785651703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II